[ale] Low cost T1 line.

George Allen glallen01 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 22:56:37 EDT 2010


How much is Metro-E?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 20:41 -0400, scott mcbrien wrote:
>> You don't want a T1, that's 1Mb/s, you can do better with a DSL or
>> cable line.
>
> The reason for the T1, as I already mentioned, is as a *backup*
> communication source.  I know what 24 DS0 channels amount to.  :-P
>
> The problem is that the only thing there presently is DSL, at 3 Mbps or
> 6 Mbps, but it's unreliable as $@#%.  So, there needs to be link that is
> able to be used to support the office.  While it is there running as a
> backup connection, it might as well also be used to run services that
> they're running already on their DSL connection; after all, the upstream
> of a T1 also beats the best DSL connection there is there by a factor of
> 3.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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